1958
Fall football season gave me a chance to see many of you again. Jane and I made it up to Hanover for the Princeton game. It was a very long afternoon, but it is always enjoyable getting back to Hanover especially with the foliage about at its peak. We saw Andy Ansaldi, Joe Carter, Sandy and Joe Slotnik, Debbie and Steve Jonas, Ceej and Tryg Myhren, Sally and Jeff Strayer, Betsy and Al Weiner, and Phil Weinseimer. We sat next to Sue and Ed Olney. They have done what many of us talk about, but don't really have the guts to do. Tired of city life and inspired by their trip through New England on their way to Reunion, they fell in love with New London, N. H. Ed proceeded to give up his job in sales with the Gleason Company in New York, bought a house in New London and then found a job with Mobilabs, a very small company in the oceanographic field. Ed says things happened in just that order and that they and their children are very happy back in the country.
Speaking of reunion again, Dave Weber wrote that, "Rumor has it that it took BobEleveld four 'antiquing' stops to get through Vermont on his way home from reunion and that Lee Wesselman was accused of transporting a corpse in an 'antique' trunk he picked up in West Lebanon." Dave also writes that Chuck Neff assisted by Jim Bryant, Graf Berger and Dave, headed up the Cleveland Alumni Club annual tea dance. "The profits from this dance and the preceding 34 have gone into a fund administered by the College and the interest and dividend income from the fund provide two $1000 annual scholarships to area boys. Lee Wesselman and his wife Bebe came the furthest from Fairmont, W. Va., where he is plant controller for LOF, the glass people." Thanks, Dave, for all the Cleveland news.
Skip Coggin's wife Wynn writes that "Skip is the proud daddy of his second daughter Anne Story, born October 5 and weighing 7 lbs., 3½ oz. Skip is now working for Polariod Crop. as a Technical Product Manager. Other than increasing the population we are all fine and thoroughly enjoying living in Marblehead." . . .We had an opportunity to see how proud Skip is and what a cutie Anne is at a great party after the Harvard game at Frank and Vicki Sands' lovely homestead in Lexington. Despite an abundance of fine food and beverage, Frank and I managed to defeat a strong ping-pong team of Skip and Kent Woodger.
The Harvard game was another long unhappy one especially sitting in the last row of the colonnades on the fifteen yard line. The party after the game at the Continental with '57 was somewhat disappointing in terms of numbers, but an appearance by the Injunaires made it a very enjoyable occasion. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Jerry Greens get the award for coming the farthest, from Racine, Wis. John and CarolOtis were up from New Jersey.
Mel and Patty Alperin have just returned from an exciting trip to Israel. Mel has been very active in the Combined Jewish Philanthropies and is a member of its Young Leadership Cabinet, a position of national scope. Mel was recently elected president of Carol Cable Company, Pawtucket, R. I., manufacturer of electrical products and a division of Avnet Corp.
On a recent business trip I stopped in Hanover and had a chance to get a good insight into local politics. The night I was there Dave and Ann Bradley were hosting a victory celebration for the passage of a school bond issue. Dave, in addition to practicing law, is chairman of the Hanover School Board. After two years of hard work and two unsuccessful attempts at getting the necessary 2/3rds vote, the town passed by an 82% margin a bond issue of $1.5 million for a badly needed elementary school. I also enjoyed staying in the new wing of the Hanover Inn. The rooms and the downstairs are big improvements over the old Inn.
Ernest Holm has joined the faculty of the Wilmington School in Wilmington, Vt. He will be teaching Social Studies. Ernie received his M.A. from Boston University and has done additional graduate work at the University of New Hampshire. He has previously taught in the Somersworth, N. H., High School. He is living in New-market, N. H.
Art Raybin has been appointed Director of Development at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N. Y. Art had been vice president for Development and Public Relations at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., where he was responsible for all fund raising, public relations, and publications activities including responsibilities for a $6.1 million capital gifts campaign. At Sarah Lawrence Art will direct fund raising activities concentrating on a $lO million capital campaign "which will make possible the first new teaching facilities since the original campus was built 40 years ago." Art is a member of, "and frequent speaker and panelist for the American Alumni Council and American College Public Relations Association. He is chairman of the development program for the American Alumni Council's 1969 New England District Conference which will be held in New Haven." Art and Elaine and their two sons live at 7 Salem Road, Chappaqua, N. Y.
I'm a little late on this one, but PhilRonkin was married on June 9 to Nan Mary Jarvis of Westhampton Beach, N. Y. Nan attended Adelphi College and graduated from Eastern School in New York. Phil is associated with Marbridge Printing Company. Al Smukler was Phil's best man.
Bruce Barber has been named administrative assistant to the president of the Fort Wayne, Ind. Service Corporation. He has been with the company's treasury staff since 1962. In that year he received the second highest marks in the Uniform Certified Public Accounting Examination and was awarded the silver medal for excellence of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. He had been associated with Price Waterhouse before joining Service.
Please take note of my new address. At this writing we are still agonizing over wallpaper, panelling, and the like, but by the time you receive this we hope to be firmly entrenched as mortgage-paying homeowners. I did try to get that street name changed.
Jane and I wish you and yours a very happy holiday season and a healthy, happy, prosperous New Year.
Secretary, 43 Cornell Road Wellesley, Mass. 02181
Treasurer, 66 Fieldcrest Road New Canaan, Conn. 01701
